Someone is attempting to Brute Force my site

  • I keep getting notifications for various IP addresses of failed login attempts. They are no where in my current location, actually they are far over seas.

    Brute force protection is enabled and the account gets locked out for a certain period of time. But then once it’s unlocked they keep using the same IP address to try my passwords. Isn’t brute force protection supposed to ban their I.P after 3 repeat offenses? Why are they able to continually use the same I.P if I have that setting enabled.

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  • Check this setting:

    Minutes to Remember Bad Login (check period)

    It may be set too low. If that’s the case then by the time they get unbanned the system has forgotten about the previous lockouts.

    Additionally make sure to review the Blacklist Repeat Offender settings under global settings to make sure those fields are set.

    Finally, in the case where i see a single IP attacking and managing to not get permabanned… well.. I manually ban them by adding them to the ban list.

    Hi,

    The bans are only active for a certain amount of time. The reason for this is if Security had to write all of these IPs to the htaccess this would use a very large amount of resources.

    If you’re seeing these IPs repetitively I’d go with Supawiz6991’s suggestion of adding them to your Ban Hosts list.

    Thanks,

    Gerroald

    Thread Starter Asapsirris

    (@asapsirris)

    Does this look good?

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    Hi,

    Yes, that looks just fine. Also, if you keep getting a repeat offender you might want to add the IP to Banned Hosts.

    Thanks,

    Gerroald

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